Barton Grange Garden Centre (above) and Whitehall Garden Centre – Whitchurch have been announced as the national winners of the 2019 Garden Centre Association’s annual Christmas competition. The garden centres were judged to have the best festive displays in the country by the organisation and will receive their awards at its annual conference in January, 2020.

In a year that has seen Primeur’s penetration of UK garden centres increase exponentially, the company has been busy working behind the scenes to develop its instore merchandising displays for the award-winning Eco Garden range...

Andrew Bracey, the chairman of Dobbies, said in The Times on Saturday: the stock market is the “natural place” for the business and it will look to float “in a year or so”. Graeme Jenkins explains the plan...

Dobbies Garden Centre Group Limited yesterday (30th November 2019) filed the Annual Report and Financial Statements for The Group and its subsidiaries for the 12 months to 24 February 2019. These show sales increased 12% on prior year to £166m and are now at £300m following the purchase of a further 31 centres during the rest of 2019...

RHS Garden Wisley is celebrating significant rises in retail sales since the opening of its new Welcome building in June this year, with total sales up 24%. This is significantly higher than the rest of the gardening retail industry, which is down 1.7% on comparable categories for the same period, and also bucks the trend against the high street generally, where in-store sales from June to October are 0.64% less than last year.

The Castle Gardens group, famous for its award-winning Christmas displays, has earned another gong – with Yeovil-based Brimsmore Gardens placed third in this year’s GCA national Christmas awards (sponsored by Gisela Graham)…even though it has removed the glitter…

Administrators appointed 10 days ago at National Polytunnels, one of the best-known suppliers to garden centres in its category, were marketing the company’s business assets for sale through agent Simon Creber of GTC last week...

Four months ahead of from Casual Dining 2020 (25-26 March, London ExCeL) two of the show's popular drinks pavilions are already sold out. Boasting a dozen exhibitors each, the Artisan Spirits Lounge and The Taphouse will sample innovations from a mix of independent breweries and distilleries...

Wyevale Nurseries expanded its sales support team and taken on two new administrators. It promoted Paulina Sawicka from its propagation department to the team and appointed Helen Hoskins. Both are now Sales Support Administrators...

A stand of 20 elm trees was planted at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire last week, the first official planting as part of Hillier Trees’ campaign; ‘re-elming the British countryside’...

Santa will be approaching the busy run-up to Christmas at Ellerker Lodge Garden Centre near Brough in East Yorkshire with a little help from one of his most senior elves – who is a modest 76 years young...

As we’d expect, growing media volume sales are dropping in the run up to Christmas, but they are staying above last year by a considerable margin. People are still gardening, even after all the wet weather we’ve had – they must be very keen!

The latest trend in real Christmas trees is a special slim version, which is perfect for smaller living rooms. Recent innovations have culminated in the ‘Slim Shape’ tree, which is particularly well suited to modern, compact rooms...

Eliminating plastics from our gardens, the social prescribing of gardening and the leafy love affair of millennials and their houseplants, were just some of the varied subjects being championed by gardening’s greatest influencers, at this year’s horticultural ‘Oscars’, the Garden Media Guild Awards.

As part of the leading rose breeder’s ongoing commitment to reducing its plastic consumption and impact on the environment, David Austin Roses has announced that its range of bare root roses now comes in plastic-free packaging...